Horace Greeley
Horace Greeley
Horace Greeleywas editor of the New-York Tribune, among the great newspapers of its time. Long active in politics, he served briefly as a congressman from New York, and was the candidate of the new Liberal Republican party in the 1872 presidential election. He crusaded against incumbent President Ulysses S. Grant and lost in a landslide...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth3 February 1811
CountryUnited States of America
Horace Greeley quotes about
cigarette-smoke fishing fire
A cigar has "...a fire at one end and a fool at the other."
long alive journalism
Journalism kills you, but it keeps you alive as long as you're doing it.
simple thinking names
We should not care much whether those thus united (against slavery) were designated 'Whig,' 'Free Democrat' or something else; though we think some simple name like 'Republican' would more fitly designate those who had united to restore the Union to its true mission of champion and promulgator of Liberty rather than propagandist of slavery.
defeated
Mr. Lincoln is already defeated. He cannot be re-elected.
results duty
Duty and to-day are ours; results and futurity belong to God.
grief ambition hands
Great grief makes sacred those upon whom its hand is laid. Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate.
country evil fearless
Our country right or wrong is an evil motto - what if your country be in the wrong? It will only compound her injury. I wish to serve the republic with an honest and fearless criticism.
writing style wells
The best style of writing, as well as the most forcible, is the plainest.
half talent tact
Talent without tact is only half talent.
long kitchen resources
No amount of preaching, exhortation, sympathy, benevolence, will render the condition of our working women what it should be, so long as the kitchen and needle are substantially their only resources.
witty may satirical
You may be witty, but not satirical.
progress ink newspapers
Printer's ink is the great apostle of progress, whose pulpit is the press.
country growing-up men
Washington is not a place to live in. The rents are high, the food is bad, the dust is disgusting and the morals are deplorable. Go West, young man, go West and grow up with the country.
country growing-up men
Go West, young man, go West and grow up with the country.